© Fu Shen
Interpretation
Information
- Title
- Pure to the Core (Qing ru gu 清入骨)
- Object Number
- 2009-33
- Maker
- Fu Shen 傅申
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dates
- 1971
- Dimensions
- Painting: 33.3 x 132.6 cm. (13 1/8 x 52 3/16 in.) Mount: 127 x 150.5 cm. (50 x 59 1/4 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Yoshiaki Shimizu, Graduate School Class of 1975
- Place made
- North America, United States
- Inscriptions
- Text (in clerical script): 清入骨 "Pure to the Core" Artist inscriptions: 清水兄出句 [屬]寫 辛亥（1971） 君約傅申 Elder brother Shimizu provided the phrase, which I wrote. 1971, Junyue Fu Shen. 十年前為清水同學書於普林斯頓未用印。今同事於 佛利爾已二年餘裝成並請補印遂記此。辛酉（1981）初秋 君約于華府 When I wrote this ten years ago for my fellow student Shimizu at Princeton, I did not use a seal. Now as colleagues at the Freer Gallery for over two years, it has been mounted, and when I was asked to add my seals I wrote this in early fall 1981. Junyue in Washington DC.
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- Characters and seals in ink on wooden box
Artist inscription:
"Wangqi bimo" 忘其筆墨, square relief, top
"Fu Shen" square intaglio, bottom
- Type
- Materials
1971–1971 Fu Shen, born 1937, by gift to Yoshiaki Shimizu (Princeton, NJ).
–2009 Yoshiaki Shimizu (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.
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